Tag: Efunsetan Aniwura

A modern poem in praise of Efunsetan Aniwura, a Yoruba woman who rose to a position of great wealth and political power in Ibadan, Nigeria, during the mid-19th century. Composed by Teslim Opemipo Omipidan from Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State in Nigeria.

Elegbe, let us not toy with a raging fire
for if the thumb get burnt,
all fingers shall suffer…